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INAUGURAL  ADDRESS 

DELIVERED  IN 


CABARRUS  COUNTY,  N.  C. 
REV.  W.  GERMRDT, 


AT 


HIS  INAUGURATION  AS  PRINCIPAL  OF  "  WESTERN  CAROLINA 
MALE  ACADEMY,"  LOCATED  AT  MOUNT  PLEAS- 
ANT CABARRUS  COUNTY,  N.  C. 


CONCORD,  N  C. 

PRINTED  BY  J.  M.  HENDERSON. 

1856. 


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INAUGURAL  ADDRESS 


DELIVERED  IN 


RlfNIHT  PLEASANT, 

CABARRUS  COUNTY,  E  C. 
BY 

REV.  W.  GERHARDT, 


AT 


HIS  INAUGURATION  AS  PRINCIPAL  OF  "  WESTERN:  CAROLINA 
3&ALE  ACADEMY "  LOCATED  AT  MOUNT  PLEAS- 
ANT CABARRUS  COUNTY,  N.  C, 


COXCORD,  !¥.,€. 

PRINTED  BY  J.  M.  HEADERS  OX* 
1855. 


Mount  Pleasant,  August  2.4th,  1855. 

Sky.  William  Gerhardt, 

Bear  Sir  : — The  undersigned  have  been  appointed  a  Committee  by  the 
Board  of  Directors  of  "  Western  Carolina  Male  Academy,"  to  request  for  pub- 
lication, a  copy  of  the  Address  delivered  by  you,  at  your  late  inauguration 
as  Principal  in  said  Institution.    Your  compliance  will  oblige,  Yours,  &c. 

JOHN  D.  SCHECK,  ) 

JOHN  SHIM-POCK,  \  Committee, 

M.  BARRIER. 


■o— 


Mount  Pleasant,  N.  C,  Aug.  29th,  1855. 

Gentlemen: — In  compliance  with  your  request,  I  herewith  furnish  yon 
with  a  copy  of  my  Inaugural  Address.  I  regret  that  want  of  time,  ill  health, 
and  the  performance  of  other  duties,  have  prevented  me  from  devoting  to  its 
preparation,  the  attention  necessary  to  make  it  meet  the  expectations  of  the 
community. 

The  only  merit  1  claim  is,  the  sincere  desire  on  my  part,  to  advance  the 
interests  of  the  Institution,  over  which  you  Lave  called  me  to  preside. 
I  am,  Gentlemen,  Yours,  respectfullv  and  truly, 

WM.  GERHARDT. 

John  D.  Scheck,  ) 

John  Shlmpock,  >  Committee. 

M.  Barrier.  \ 


THE  FLOWERS  COUJECTKHl 


ADDRESS. 


GEXTEERIEN  OF  THE  BOAR©  OF  DIRECTORS: 

A  few  weeks  ago  you  passed  a  resolution,  making  it  mv  duty  to  delivar 
an  Address  on  the  day  of  my  inauguration  as  First  Professor  of"  Western 
Carolina  Male  Academy."  I  now  stand  before  you  to  perform  that  duty. 
But,  before  J  do  this,  permit  me,  in  justice  to  myself,  to  state,  that,  owing  to 
the  short  time  allowed  me,  and  the  various  other  duties  devolving  upon  me, 
during  that  time,  I  have  had  but  a  few  days  left  to  prepare  myself  for  the 
performance  of  the  task  assigned  me,  on  this  occasion.  If,  therefore,  I  am 
compelled  to  draw  the  more  laigely  upon  other  resources,  I  urge  the  want 
of  time  as  the  only  apology. 

Called  from  the  retirement  of  a  country  pastorate,  to  take  charge  of  and 
preside  over  the  Institution  which  has  been  originated,  planted,  and  thus  far 
successfully  reared  by  your  laudable  efforts,  you  may  be  assured  that  I  am 
by  no  means  indifferent,  either  to  the  honor  thus  conferred,  or  the  duties  and 
responsibilities  thus  imposed,  in  raising  me  to  the  position  which  I  now  oc- 
cupy. And,  while  I  enter  upon  the  position  with  diffidence,  and  under  no 
small  degree  of  embarrassment,  for  fear  of  disappointing  your  expectations, 
I  am  nevertheless  encouraged  by  the  confidence  you  have  reposed  in  me  in 
electing  one  who  did  not  seek  the  position,  and  who  is  a  stranger  to  the  ma- 
jority of  that  eclesiastical  body,  under  whose  direction  and  auspices  the  In- 
stitution has  been  reared.  And  when  I  review  the  circumstances  which  have 
combined  to  place  me  before  you  as  first  Professor  of  this  newly  organized 
Institution,  I  think  I  can  plainly  see  the  direction  of  Providence  in  this  mo- 
mentous matter  and  this  has  give  course  and  color  to  my  line  of  duty. — 
"With  this  assurance,  Gentlemen,  I  can  the  more  freely  and  confidently  enter 
upon  this  important  and  responsible  position.  And  presuming  npon  your 
kind  and  ready  co-operation,  it  shall  be  my  aim  and  my  highest  ambition, 
in  the'  discharge  of  my  duty,  to  serve  the  cause  of  education,  and  the  cause- 
of  the  Church. 

The  planting  of  "  Western  Carolina  Academy,"  in  this  comparatively 
remote  part  of  our  Lutheran  territory,  is  certainly  indicative  of  an  increased! 


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interest  in  our  Church,  of  elevating  the  standard  of  education,  both  in  the 
different  learned  professions  and  the  various  minor  departments  of  secular 
business ;  in  other  words— to  open  and  afford  facilities  for  general  and  uni- 
versal intelligence. 

We  trust,  therefore,  that  you  Trill  be  able  to  mark  this  as  an  epoch,  from 
which  you  shall  date  much  of  the  prosperity,  much  of  the  respectability, — 
and  much  of  the  public  character,  not  only  of  the  Church,  but  also  of  the 
State,  in  whose  bounds  your  Institution  is  located.  We  trust,  that  while  the 
influence  of  the  Institution,  in  common  with  that  of  others  of  a  kindred 
character,  will  promote  the  objects  of  literature  and  science,  it  will,  at  the 
same  time,  also  make  a  sensible  impression  upon  the  moral's  ot  soeiet}T,  and 
exert  a  powerful  and  salutary  influence  upon  the  Church.  This,  I  presume-, 
is  the  avowed  object  of  the  founders  and  patrons  of  this  enterprise.  Let  ne, 
therefore,  call  your  attention  on  the  present  occasion  to  the  necessity  of  mm- 
bluing  intellectual  development  and  moral  culture  for  usefulness  in  fofe. 

This  may  seem  rather  a  trite  subject  to  those  who  are  fond  of  novelty,  but 
if  it  is  trite,  it  is  not  the  less  important  ;  for,  no  subject  within  the  range  of 
human  action,  deserves  a  larger  share  of  public  attention,  than  rational  and 
moral  education.  It  is  the  sure  basis  of  every  active  virtue.  It  is  the  pro- 
lific soil  from  which  spring  the  graces,  as  well  as  the  solid  enjoyments  of 
mental  existence.  In  whatever  position  man  may  be  placed — whatever  his 
fortune  or  destiny  may  be,  a  liberal  education,  including  sound  moral  in- 
struction, is  a  guiding  star  in  his  pilgrimage  ot  life,  enlightening  his  path- 
way, elevating  his  character,  qualifying  him  for  usefulness,  while  it  enables 
him  to  conquer  adversity,  to  alleviate  misfortune,  to  communicate  'knowledge, 
and  to  enjoy  pleasure  unmixed  with  the  vices  of  the  world.  It  is  conceded 
by  all,  I  presume,  that  health  and  grofyth  are  promoted  by  exercise,  and  that 
the  development  of  the  physical  powers  is  indispensable  to  the  mechanical 
purposes  of  life  :  even  so  the  intellectual  and  moral  faculties  must  be  drawn 
out,  exercised  and  developed,  to  answer  the  designs  of  our  Creator. 

In  the  organization  of  the  human  frame,  every  limb  has  its  appropriate  use, 
and  the  well-being  of  the  whole  depends  upon  a  due  exercise  of  its  parts. — 
And  that  system  of  gymnastics  most  ever  be  regarded  the  best,  which  pro- 
motes the  strength  and  activity  of  the  several  members  of  the  body.  In  like 
manner  the  mind  is  endowed  with  a  number  of  faculties,  with  their  appro- 
priate spheres  of  action  ;  and  that  exercise  is  best  calculated  todevelope,  to 
strengthen,  enoble,  improve  and  beautify  it,  which  brings  into  healthy  and 
vigorous  play,  all  its  diversified  powers.  "  I  consider,"  says  Addison,  a  hu- 
m  an  soul  without  education,  like  a  marble  in  the  quarry ;  which  shows  none 
of  its  inherent  beauties,  until  the  skill?  of  the  polisher  fetches  out  the  colors, 
makes  the  surface  shine,  and  discovers  every  ornamental  cloud,  spot  and  vein 
tbat  runs  through  the  body  of  it.  Education,  after  the  same  manner,  when 
it  works  upon  a  noble  mind,  draws  out  to  view  every  latent  virtue  and  per- 
fection, which,  without  such  helps,  are  never  able  to  make  their  appearance." 

With  vegetables  and  the  lower  order  of  animals  it  is  different.  They  re- 
quire no  particular  training — no  special  attention,  (or  at  least  comparatively 
little,)  for  that  small  degree  of  development  of  which  they  are  susceptible. 
God  has  impressed  upon  them  laws  and  given  them  instincts,  and  these  are 
the  only  principles  necessary  to  impel  them  onward  to  the  completion  of  the 


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>end  of  their  being.  Neither  of  them  can  be  radically  changed  or  material- 
ly improved  by  training.  The  oak  shoots  up  from  the  acorn,  and,  shaken 
by  a  thousand  storms,  it  thrives  uncared  for,  reaches  its  maturity,  and  proud- 
ly stands,  the  monarch  of  the  woods.  The  lion,  issuing  from  some  mountain 
cavern,  which  was  his  birth-place,  thrown  at  once  untaught  an?  unprotect- 
ed upon  his  own  resources,  still  lives  and  reigns  king  of  animals. 

Not  so  with  man.  His  faculties  require  development — his  pas3;ons,  con- 
trol— the  deep  resources  of  his  nature,  the  warmth  of  culture  to  bring  them 
to  light.  Man  comes  into  the  world  helpless,  but  with  a  mind  and  soul  :— 
a  mind  capable  of  the  highest  degree  of  expansion  and  improvement,  a  soul 
capable  of  eternal  aprroximation  to,  but  yet  infinite  distance  from  Deity.-— 
To  unfold  man's  nature — to  draw  out  his  powers,  devel ope  and  expose  them 
is  the  proper  business  of  education. 

Here  we  must  be  excused  for  referring  to  and  exposing  a  common  but  se- 
rious error  upon  the  subject :  an  error  which  has  been  a  great  barrier  to  the 
proper  development  of  the  mind.  I  mean  the  filling  up  and  cramming 
process,  a  practice  which  has  thrown  upon  the  world  hundreds  and  thousands 
of  superficialists  and  ignoramuses.  Many  parents  on  entrusting  their  chil- 
dren into  the  hands  of  the  teacher  inform  him,  or  at  least  intimate,  that  they 
wish  them  to  have  so  much  knowledge  communicated  to  them,  say  of  Gram- 
mar, Arithmetic,  Latin,  &c.  They  send  their  children  to  school  as  they  do 
to  the  merchant,  to  get  so  much,  as  though  knowledge,  like  cloth  could  be 
measured  by  yard-sticks,  or  tunneled  into  them  like  molasses  into  a  jug  ! — 
The  teacher,  perhaps,  happens  to  be  one.  who  has  been  taught  in  the  same 
manner,  and  so  greatly  reveres  that  practice  of  his  teacher  and  his  teacher's- 
le  ichev,  that  he  would  consider  it  almost  a  crime,  or  at  least  an  insult  to 
the  memory  of  his  predecessor  to  abnndon  a  practice  wdiich  has  so  eminent- 
ly qualified  him  for  his  position.  lie  has  provided  himself  with  a  stock  of 
th  e  saleable  branches,  and  is  ready  to  supply  all  orders  in  his  line.  He  re- 
gards his  pupils  as  the  druggist  does  his  vials.  He  takes  their  minds,  one 
by  one,  and  pours  in  from  his  larger  vessel,  of  the  required  material,  as 
though  it  were  some  valuable  oil,  and  carefully  corks  it  up,  fearing  lest  the 
motion  should  spill  the  precious  article.  The  parents,  upon  leceiving  their 
children,  act  upon  the  same  principle,  and  examine  the  child's  head,  to  see 
if  it  be  full  !  Pupils,  too,  are  thus  taught  to  regard  education  as  a  process 
of  filling  up.  Consequently,  many  of  them  go  into  a  school  room,  as  they 
would  into  a  prison,  expecting  to  have  their  minds  confined,  and  handled,  and 
filled  up  and  shook  down. 

Now  the  truth  is  that  education  is  but  following  out  nature,  instead  of 
confining  and  crossing  her.  We  repeat,  it  consists  in  leading  out  the  mind. 
To  accomplish  this,  everything — even  external  arrangements — should  com- 
bine to  attract,  to  excite,  to  suggest,  to  encourage,  to  delight  and  to  satisfy. 
The  school-room  should  be  an  enchanting  spot,  and  the  pupil  should  enter 
it  as  the  candidate  for  the  prize,  entered  the  Olympic  games,  or  as  the  unre- 
strained Indian  engages  in  the  gigantic  pastimes  of  the  wilderness.  It  is  the 
area  for  mental  sport  and  mental  struggle,  with  a  view  to  mental  develop- 
ment. Seucippus,  an  ancient  teacher,  acted  upon  this  principle.  He  direc- 
ted pictures  of  joy  and  gladness  to  be  hung  around  his  school-room,  to  rea- 
der it  attractive  to  his  pupils,  and  to  invite  rather  than  to  force  them  to 


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INAUGURAL  ADDRESS. 


study.  Everything  should  be  invested  with  interest,  so  that  the  student  wil 
not  look  upon  study  as  a  burdensome  task,  but  a  well-spring  of  enjoy 
ment.  Thus  should  the  intellectual  powers  be  developed,  disciplined  am 
strengthened.  This  is  the  primaiy  object  in  reference  to  all  the  branches  o 
useful  knowledge,  and  thus  alone  can  they  be  made  available  to  the  practi 
cal  purposes  of  life. 

Such  is  the  nature  of  mind  that  it  needs  encouragement  and  attention.— 
it  needs  a  genial  soil.    It  needs  a  kind  hand  to  aid  it  in  fastening  its  feelin 
tendrils  higher,  so  as  thereby  to  aid  itself  in  rising  to  light  and  freed om.- 
And  such  is  its  expansive  nature,  and  such  its  elasticity  and  power  of  distei 
sion,  that  each  acquisition,  instead  of  contributing  to  fill  its  capacity,  onl 
serves  to  enlarge  it.    "  Look  at  the  history  of  a  single  seed.    What  a  worl 
of  mystery  lies  concealed  in  its  bosom  !     Lay  it  in  the  soft  warm  bosom  of 
the  earth,  and  then  wait  for  wonders  !    Gradually  its  hidden  life  begins  to 
travail  and  struggle  earnestly  toward  a  manifestation.    Its  bosom  begins  to 
swell, — the  fibres  of  its  warm  and  glowing  heart  reach  forth  and  lav  hold  of 
the  surrounding  earth — the  germ  begins  to  creep  upward  to  seek  the  light, 
and  soon  we  behold  the  plant,  the  flower,  the  fruit.    Suppose  even  its  posi- 
tion in  the  earth  to  be  of  the  most  unfavorable  kind — suppose  it  covered 
with  clods  and  stones,  the  germ  creeps  hither  and  thither,  till  it  finds  an  av- 
enue by  which  it  may  emerge  from  its  dark  captivity  and  smile  in  the  sun. 
Such  is  the  plastic  energy  of  a  thing  that  lives." 

"  A  raven  once  an  acorn  took, 

From  Bashau's  tallest  tree ; 
He  lai  1  it  down  beside  a  brook, 

And  lived  an  oak  to  see ." 

The  seed  is  a  symbol  of  the  mind.  There  is  a  life  of  mind,  as  well  as  a  life  of 
vegetation  ;  but  it  is  of  an  infinitely  higher  order,  and  unbosoms  an  energy 
capable  of  the  most  wonderful  manifestations.  Need  I  repeat,  then,  that  it 
needs  and  deserves  encouragement  and  attention  ?  True,  it  has  great  na- 
tive force,  but  it  needs  a  gentle  hand  to  give  it  direction,  and  to  fasten  it  up- 
on objects  that  are  noble  and  good. 

Now  the  human  mind  is  progressive,  and  its  development  must  begin  ear- 
ly— and  it  should  be  life-long.  Youth  is  the  season  for  preparation  for  the 
active  duties  of  existence.  The  years  of  infancy  and  youth  are  not  to  be  ex- 
clusively occupied  in  the  evolution  of  the  physical  powers  only,  but  also  in 
educing  those  mental  capacities  of  which  nature  has  deposited  the  germ. — 
This,  however,  falls  more  appropriately  within  the  province  of  the  family, — 
and  the  primary  or  common  schools.  It  is  reserved  for  academical  and  col- 
legiate institutions  to  continue  this  development,  and  to  discipline  the  mind 
preparatory  to  entering  upon  the  studies  of  a  profession.  "The  mind  must 
be  prepared  by  elementary  training  and  gradual  approaches,  for  the  recep- 
tion of  that  varied  and  immeasurable  fund  of  knowledge,  which  the  more 
matured  intellect  is  alone  capable  of  grasping.  It  must  receive  such  a  di- 
rection as  to  its  nascent  propensities,  as  will,  in  after  life,  secure  a  devotion 
to  good  purposes,  leaving  their  accumulation  for  riper  years." 

In  infancy  and  childhood,  the  foundation  is  laid — in  youth  the  superstruc- 
ture is  reared,  and  in  manhood  the  intellectual  edifice  is  filled  with  every 


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article  of  furniture  necessary  to  answer  all  the  practical  purposes  of  life,  in 
relation  to  man,  in  relation  to  God,  and  in  relation  to  ourselves.  Neglect 
to  lay  a  solid  and  durable  foundation,  in  vain  will  you  afterwards  strive  to 
rear  a  substantial  and  harmonious  edifice.  "•  We  may  profusely  decorate  it 
with  tinsel  or  barbaric  gold,  but  devoid  of  symmetry  or  relation,  it  will  only 
resemble  one  of  those  incongruous  and  ill-assorted  piles  which  the  traveller 
sometimes  meets  with,  in  which  all  proportion  is  confounded,  and  all  the  or- 
ders of  architecture  blended." 

True,  there  are  examples  cn  record  of  men  having  become  learned  and 
great,  by  commencing  their  literary  career  at  a  comparatively  advanced  pe- 
riod of  life  ;  but  such  instances  are  very  rare,  and  form  only  exceptions  to  the 
general  rule.    There  are  few  Nevvtons,  whose  minds  are  so  great  and  grasp- 
ing by  nature  us  to  supersede  the  necessity  of  studying  Euclid.    The  few  ex- 
ceptions-' on  record  do  not  warrant  us  in  the  least,  in  passing  the  spring-time 
of  life  in  inglorious  ease  ;  nor  do  they  at  all  justify  us  in  indolently  sitting 
down  and  looking  for  lucky  chance,  or  some  favored  hour  of  inspiration,  to 
baptise  us  with  all  knowledge,  and  crown  us  with  literary  celebrity,  profess- 
ional renown  or  political  fame.    The  storm-torrent  that  comes  tumbling 
•down  the  steep  and  rugged  hill-side,  roaring  with  the  uoise  of  thunder  and 
scattering  the  spray  on  the  surrounding  woods,  is  soon  exhausted,  and  the 
■channel  left  dry  and  dusty.  But  the  little  rill  that  issues  from  a  well  or  fountain, 
flows  on  gently  and  steadily,  purling  at  first  through  verdant  vales,  and  gradu- 
ally becoming  deeper  and  wider  by  receiving  tributaries.    Then  meandering 
along,it  noiselessly  discharges  itself  into  a  wide  lake,which  is  always  kept  fresh 
and  full  by  its  slow  but  constant  and  uniform  supply.    So  the  mmd,  unde- 
veloped, undisciplined,  may,  in  the  hour  of  strong  excitement  or  fanatical 
zeal,  tickle  the  ear,  dazzle  the  eye,  enchain  the  attention,  arouse  the  passions, 
and  elicit  admiration  and  applause  ;  but,  for  lack  of  resources — for  lack  of 
proper  fuel  to  sustain  the  momentary  flame,  its  intellectual  nudity  and  bar- 
renness are  completely  exposed.    But  the  mind  that  has  been  carefully,  sys- 
tematically and  thoroughly  trained,  whosvi  faculties  have  become  developed 
and  thus  been  made  fit  receptacles  for  substantial  knowledge,  is  always  fertile 
in  resources,  in  any  and  every  emergenc\',  and  amply  supplied  with  the 
means  and  strength  necessary  to  carry  out  every  useful  project ;  while  its 
weight  and  influence  will  be  steady,  constant  and  uniform. 

Although  our  facilities  have  been  multiplied  unto  us  in  these  latter  day?, 
particularly  in  the  glorious  nineteenth  century  :  although  the  acquisition  of 
useful  knowledge  has  been  made  comparatively  easy,  yet  application — and 
close  application — is  necessary.  Although  there  have  been  inventions  and 
discoveries  in  «very  branch  of  knowledge,  and  improvements  without  end  in 
every  department  of  the  arts  and  sciences,  still  the  mind  must  undergo  reg-» 
ular  and  systematic  training, — still  the  "hill  of  science"  is  steep  and  rugged, 
and,  with  all  the  ingenuity  of  Young  America  in  this  present,  progressive, 
advancing  and  wonder  working  age,  no  genius  has  yet  been  found  or  heard 
of,  so  fertile  in  invention,  or  so  successful  in  experiments,  as  to  convert  the 
steep  ascent  into  an  inclined  plane,  to  carry  up  the  student  by  machinery, 
while  he  sits  ingloriously  iu  his  car  of  ease  and  indolence  ! 

No,  sirs  !  Education  is  something  that  is  personal, — it  i3  reflexive,  if  I 
may  be  allowed  the  expression.   The  development  of  the  mind  requires  in- 


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INAUGURAL  ADDRESS. 


dividual  effort — individual  application  and  energy.  AVe  are  aware  tbat  the 
drudgery  of  a  thorough  mental  training  is  to  some  intolerable.  Everything 
is  to  be  done  and  accomplished  in  a  hurry,  and  in  maTiy  instances  there  is 
more  speed  than  wisdom.  "We  want  practical  men,'1  says  the  restless  spir- 
it of  this  progressi  ve  age, — "  men  who  can  buy  imd  sell  and  speculate  ;  men 
in  (he  pulpit  who  have  quick  perceptions  and  ready  speech.  Scholastic  lore 
is  nonsense  ;  Greek  and  Latin  are  a  tax  npon  time,  and  the  higher  Mathe- 
matics are  asleep."  But  we  contend,  and  every  intelligent,  sober  and  cal- 
culating man,  who  views  this  matter  from  a  proper  point,  will  agree  with 
us,  that  no  age  ever  demanded  the  more  thorough  mental  training  of  those 
who  are  to  take  the  lead  in  the  nation,  than  the  present. 

It  is,  alas  !  "oo  true,  that  while  time  has  become  more  plenty,  through  time- 
saving  inventions  :  and,  while  our  facilities  for  the  acquisition  of  knowledge 
have  been  increased,  there  has  also  been  a  corresponding  increase  of  world- 
liness,  fondness  for  amusements,  and  other  trifles.  The  tide  of  things,  like 
a  stream,  is  becoming  shallower  as  it  grows  broader.  It  must  be  evident  to 
every  reflecting  mind,  that  the  tendency  of  things  is  to  superficiality,  both  in 
a  literary  and  moral  point  of  view.  Because  the  work  of  providing  for  the 
body  and  getting  rich  is  easily  done,  men  set  down  to  eat  and  lise  to>  play. 
A  novel,  a  circus,  a  dance  or  a  glass  of  ale,  seems  to  be  relished  more  than 
the  waters  of  Castilia  ;  and,  the  fumes  of  a  '  prineipe  "  more  r^g-afing,  than 
the  purest  air  on  the  "  hill  of  science,1'  and,  any  of  these  is  better  adapted  to 
rock  the  faculties  asleep  than  the  keen  electric  animations  of  science.  See 
the  loafer !  whether  upon  the  store  box,  upon  the  bench  before  the  bar-room 
or  upon  the  sofa,  how  he  loves  his  inglorious  ease.  "  Science  ! "  he  exclaims, 
"  can  a  man  eat  it  ?  Can  a  man  drink  it  ?  Will  it  make  a  man  laugh  ? 
What  then  is  science  ?"  And  back  he  falls  again,  into  his  original  dozings 
as  if  ke  had  been  shot  at  with  a  poppy  ! 

Wo  repeat,  then,  that  education  is  personal — it  must  be  acquired — it  can- 
not be  inherited.  And  it  can  only  be  acquired  by  close  and  continued  ap- 
plication. One  cannot  study  for  another  any  more  than  eat  for  him.  Men- 
tal development  is  but  the  fruit  of  mental  labor.  How  important,  then,  to 
enlist  the  energies  of  the  mind  in  this  labor  while  in  the  spring-time  of  life. 
Youth  is  the  rich,  soft,  moist  meadow  ground  of  life,  out  of  which  the  stream 
of  life  issues,  and  the  course  it  then  takes,  it  is  apt  to  keep.  Now  then,  or 
never  !  Few  rivers  are  turned  into  a  new  channel,  when  once  they  sweep 
along  in  the  full  tide  of  their  strength  ;  and  equally  few  human  beings  turn 
into  anew  course,  when  once  the  strong  current  of  middle  life  is  bearing 
them  on  towards  their  destiny.  Youth,  then,  is  the  time  to  form  high  pur- 
poses and  to  set  out  for  high  ends.  And  that  young  man  who  is  willing  to 
submit  to  the  labor  and  self  denial  involved  in  the  pursuit  of  useful  kuowi- 
edge^  may  be  sure  of  final  success. 

"  Let  us  then  be  up  and  doing, 

With  a  heart  For  any  fate  ; 
Still  achieving,  still  pursuing, 

Learn  to  labor  and  to  wait." 

At  this  period,  however,  hidden  dangers  lurk  in  the  arbors  where  the  most 
inviting  flowers  grow.    Evil  society  opens  its  unclean  embrace.    To  all  the 


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senses  existing  evil  presents  some  of  its  defilements.  To  the  eye  appear  the 
pride  and  vanity  of  life — to  the  ear  the  whispers  of  unbelief  and  the  siren  se- 
ducements  of  forbidden  pleasure.  Passion  is  strong",  hope  is  active,  the 
judgment  restless  and  impatient  of  restraint,  and  the  balhuice  is  hanging  in 
fearful  poise  between  weal  and  woe — between  glory  and  degradation.  Here 
is  the  day  of  trial,  and  I  need  not  say  that  thousands  fail  to  pass  safely,  the 
dreadful  crisis.  And  why  ?  Because  thenar*  which  is  "deceitful  above  all 
things  and  desperately  wicked,"  has  been  neglected  and  left  uncultivated. 
Because  while  they  may  have  made  much  progress  in  the  pursuit  of  intellec- 
tual knowledge,  and  bid  fair  to  become  literary  stars,  they  neglected  that 
which  is  the  only  safe-guard  of  man — moral  culture. 

True,  a  love  for  books — a  love  for  the  high  pursuits  of  science,  can  do 
much  to  aid  the  student  in  avoiding  the  path  of  idle  and  low  profligaev.  It 
will  afford  him  employment,  company  and  a  taste  for  higher  enjovments, — 
than  those  of  sense  and  vanity,  and  above  all,  fit  him  for  a  life  of  usefulness 
and  honor.  But,  after  all,  nothing  but  true  Religion  can  effectually  secure 
the  student  against  the  defilements  of  vice,  and  sanctify  and  hallow  his  lite* 
rary  pursuits  and  acquirements  to  his  own  happiness,  to  tne  well  being  of 
his  fellow  man  and  the  glory  of  God. 

Were  man's  existence  limited  to  this  world,  (as  some  in  their  madness 
would  have  it.)  then  it  would  matter  but  little  how  he  would  spend  his  life, 
for  then  everything  would  close  and  end  with  him  in  death.  But  both  wis- 
dom and  revelation  combine  to  prove  the  immortality  of  man's  existence  : 
the  soul  does  not  expect  to  die  with  the  body. 

"  The  human  soul  is  like  the  vestal's  fire, 
Lit  with  a  flame  that  never  must  expire." 

Man  has  been  created  with  a  view  to  eternity.  LTis  destiny  is  thitherward  r 
and  a  correspondent  course  of  training  is  necessary  to  fit  him  for  that  state, 
To  euable  man,  then,  to  fulfil  the  designs  of  his  Creator,  moral  culture  must 
le  combined  with  intellectual  development. 

"We  are  aware  that  to  some,  this  is  an  unpopular  doctrine — unpopular, 
because  unsavoiy.  There  is  a  strong  tendency  to  separate  intellectual  and 
moral  education,  a  leaning  to  materialism  that  cannot  but  prove  detrimental 
to  the  best  interests  of  our  Republic.  '''Education!  education!  is  the 
watchword  of  all  parties,  and  is  ever  on  the  tongues  of  the  political  mounte- 
banks, who  agitate  the  community  to  obtain  the  smiles  and  support  of  an 
honest,  though  vain  and  credulous  community.  How  often  are  we  not  told 
that  intelligence  is  the  main  pillar  of  our  great  political  fabric,  and  that  this 
is  all  that  is  necessary  to  secure  the  perpetuity  of  our  free  institutions !"  True, 
tliis-  is  necessary  and  desirable  to  promote  the  happiness  of  the  social  man,  but 
it  requires  a  corresponding  cultivation  aud  expansion  of  the  heart  for  the  ul- 
timate happiness  of  the  immortal  man. 

The  heart  is  the  seat  of  the  moving  power.  It  is  to  the  man  what  the  pi- 
lot is  to  the  vessel— it  gives  him  his  direction.  The  intellectual  faculties  are 
the  mere  machinery,  and  though  of  the  utmost  importance,  how  insignifi- 
cant when  compared  with  the  noble  powers  of  the  soul.  How  vain  is  the 
hope  of  the  world's  perfection  by  means  of  purely  intellectual  education  ! — 
Let  intellectual  knowledge  diffuse  its  rays  to  the  ends  of  the  world, -unhallow- 


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ed  and  unrefined  by  moral  culture,  still  sensuality,  avarice,  ambition,  jeal- 
ousy, vanity,  pride  and  unbelief  will  exist,  Nay,  they  will  live,  and  act  too, 
in  a  wider  field,  with  a  keener  eye,  with  a  deeper  wisdom,  with  a  more  re- 
fined art,  and  work  out  with  more  terrific  enginery,  their  damning- and  deso- 
lating effects.  Is  it  unwise  :  is  it  dangerous  to  put  a  sword  in  the  hands  of 
a  madman  ?  Even  so  it  is  unwise  and  dangerous  to  separate  mental  and 
moral  training,  and  to  bestow  the  former  alone  upon  an  object  in  whoso 
heart  all  the  wicked  passions  are  in  full  and  fcarful  play.  Thus  the  powers 
of  the  human  mind  may  be  perverted  to  blight  and  destroy  :  they  may  be 
distorted  to  waste  and  devastate  a  Continent,  enslave  and  debase  a  people, — 
corrupt  and  vitiate  a  -vhole  community.  "  Knowledge  is  indeed  power  ;  but 
it  has  power  to  do  evil  as  well  as  good — to  kill  as  well  as  make  alive.  The 
educated  rogue  or  skeptic  is  a  dangerous  man.  Extraordinary  intellectual 
strength,  sometimes,  it  is  to  be  regretted,  defies  restraint,  and  spreads  dismay 
over  those  srsiling  regions  it  was  designed  to  fertilize  and  bless."  Though 
the  ancient  sages  were  learned,  yet  what  *was  the  character,  after  all,  of  their 
morality — their  Religion  ?  Let  us  search  their  caves  and  groves,  their  pub- 
lie  highways  and  their  private  walks,  and  the  result  of  our  investigation  will 
coroborate  our  doctrine.  They  taught  what  they  did  not  practice.  Their 
wisdom  served  but  to  refine  their  depravity  aud  conceal  its  workings.  The 
fountains  of  iniquity  were  calmer,  but  they  were  on  that  account,  more  pro- 
found ;  the  stream  flowed  in  narrower  but  deeper  channels.  There  is  no 
room  for  skepticism  on  this  subjeet ;  for  the  question  as  to  the  absolute  ne- 
cessity of  moral  culture,  to  refine  and  hallow  intellectual  acquisitions  and  re- 
searches, and  to  fit  man  for  the  fulfilment  of  the  designs  of  his  creation,  has 
long  since  been  established  and  settled.  The  greatest  lights  of  every  age 
bear  testimony  to  the  correctness  of  our  position,  from  the  present  back  to 
the  time  of  Aristotle.  Locke,  the  most  distinguished  of  modern  metaphysi- 
cians, says  :  "  I  place  virtue  as  the  first  and  most  necessary  of  those  endow- 
ments which  belong  to  man."  Lord  Karnes  says  :  "  It  appears  unaccount- 
able that  our  teachers  generally  have  directed  their  instructions  to  the  head 
with  so  little  attention  to  the  heart."  "  The  end  of  learning,"  says  Milton, 
"  is  to  repair  the  ruin  of  our  first  parents,  by  regaining  a  right  knowledge  of 
God,  and  out  of  that  knowledge,  to  love  him,  to  imitate  him,  to  belike  him, 
as  we  may  the  nearest,  by  possessing  ourselves  of  true  virtue,  which,  united 
to  the  heavenly  gift  of  faith,  makes  up  the  highest  perfection." 

It  is  to  be  deplored,  that  in  this  utilitarian  age,  the  parents,  the  public  and 
prirate  instructors  of  ihe  youth  of  our  country,  are  so  little  concerned  for  the 
development  of  the  moral  feelings  and  the  better  affections  of  those  entrust- 
ed to  their  care.  Thjir  greatest  solicitude  seems  to  be,  to  cultivate  those  fac 
ulties  only,  which,  in  the  language  of  the  day,  will  enable  their  possessor  to 
make  a  figure  in  the  world  !  Are  the  promptings  of  the  youthful  heart  and 
the  buddings  of  the  infant  soul,  watched  with  the  same  degree  of  solicitude, 
and  are  the  young  accustomed  to  hear  the  same  mead  of  praise  bestowed  up- 
on acts  of  exalted  benevolence  and  rare  goodness,  which  is  generally  award- 
ed to  those  that  indicate  mere  mental  superiority  ?  Alas  !  no.  Instead  of 
the  young  being  taught  to  render  themselves  respected  and  happy,  by  con- 
tributing to  the  happiness  of  others,  most  frequently  the  first  principles  imbi- 
bed are  those  of  selfishness,  which  but  too  soon  becomes  the  ruling  passion 


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of  the  soul — the  polar  star  of  man's  actions.  Such  are  the  practices  of  ma- 
ny of  those  who  stand  out  as  beacons  to  the  youthful  mariners.  Thus  hu- 
man accountability  seems  to  be  almost  entirely  lost  sight  of  and  forgotten, 
amid  the  pursuits  of  avarice  and  ambition. 

u  What  God  has  joined  together,  let  no  man  put  asunder,"  is  an  injunc- 
tion ihat  applies  to  moral  and  intellectual  training,  as  well  as  to  the  marriage 
institution.  Mental  discipline  and  moral  culture,  ought  always  to  go  hand 
in  hand,  and  in  no  instance  ought  the  former  be  permitted  to  outstrip  the 
latter.  The  mental  powers  and  moral  feelings  should  always  be  kept  side  by 
by  side  in  advancing  the  possessor  to  the  dignity  and  stature  of  intellectual 
and  moral  manhood.  This  law  is  coiled  around  our  very  being,  and  wo  to 
him  who  endeavors  to  shake  it  off.  The  proper  business  of  education,  then, 
is  to  cement  the  union  of  man's  intellectual  and  moral  nature,  not  to  divide 
it.  Let  the  waters  of  intellectual  education  be  brought  to  the  door  of  every 
individual,  and  let  each  be  invited  to  drink  and  drink  freely,  still  he  will  not 
he  cannot  be  satisfied,  until  he  drinks  of  that  river,  "  the  streams  whereof 
shall  mnke  glad  the  city  of  God."  Unless  the  moral  feelings  are  drawn 
forth  and  made  to  assume  their  legitimate  supremacy  ;  unless  the  conscience 
is  watered  by  the  dews  of  moral  purity,  the  stream  will  only  carry  him  into 
the  ocean  of  eternal  death.  jSTo  matter  how  intelligent  a  community  may 
be,  if  that  more  substantial  ingredient  of  social  happiness — virtue,  be  want- 
ing, it  will  stand  upon  a  sandy  foundation,  and  its  downfall  will  sooner  or 
later  ensue. 

It  is  only  the  indwelling  of  unfaltering  integrity  of  purpose,  combined  with 
intelligence,  that  can  protect  the  many  from  the  usurpations  of  a  few.  It  is 
only  when  man  is  made  to  feel,  that  knowledge  is  alone  desirable  as  better 
enabling  him  to  fill  the  station  assigned  him  as  a  moral  agent,  that  he  is 
fecure  against  the  interested  and  ambitious  of  his  race.  It  is  only  when  the 
mind  is  treated  as  the  hand-maid  of  conscience,  and  taught  habitual  obedi- 
ence to  her  mandate,  that  man  can  be  said  to  occupy  and  improve  those  tal- 
lents  which  have  been  entrusted  to  him. 

Many  examples  might  be  adduced  in  defence  of  our  proposition.  Look  at 
Voltaire  :  this  infidel  had,  perhaps,  not  a  superior  in  his  age,  in  genius,  attain- 
ment and  industry;  yet  what  did  he  accomplish  ?  To  what  useful  purposes 
were  the  powers  of  his  mind  ever  directed  ?  What  treasures  did  he  lay  up 
for  himself  either  in  this  life  or  the  life  to  come  ?  His  genius  kindled  only 
to  wither  and  consume.  His  work  was  to  infuse  poison  and  death  into  the 
atmosphere  around  him.  Look  at  Byron  :  he  was  so  richly  favored,  and 
might  have  sung  in  strains  as  pure  and  as  full  of  sweet  benevolence  as  the 
author  of  "  The  Task,"  and  been  an  instrument  of  much  good  to  his  [fellow- 
men  ;  yet,  destitute  of  moial  principle,  he  is  blown  about  like  a  skiff  in  a 
storm,  without  chart  or  compass,  anchorage  or  helm,  attempting  to  gild 
his  monstrous  vices  with  the  meritricious  ornaments  of  an  extraordinary  but 
depraved  genius.  Look  at  Gibbon,  and  Hume,  and  Bolingbroke,  and  La 
Place  :  they  either  became  the  advocates  of  a  blind  and  mechanical  atheism7 
or  employed  their  unrivaled  powers  in  advancing  cheerless  skepticism  and 
defaming  the  champions  of  Christianity. 

"  Talents,  angel-bright, 
If  wanting  worth  are  shining  ornaments 


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In  false  ambition's  hand,  to  finish  faults 
Illustrious,,  and  give  infamy  renown." 

But  let  us  come  nearer  home,  ai  d  let  us  briefly  consider  the  characters  of 
two  individuals  of  our  own  country,  as  examples  in  point.  I  have  iu  mv 
mind's  eye,  a  man  massive,  piercing  and  towering  in  intellect ;  vast  and 
brilliant  iu  intellectual  powers  and  attainment;  brave  and  daringin  the  field, 
dazzling,  in  the  cabinet:  for  versatility  of  genius,  and  loftiness  of  acquire- 
ments in  literature  and  science,  second  to  none  in  the  young  Republic.  For 
a  time  his  course  is  steadily  onward  and  upward,  and'  for  the  while  lie  bids 
fair  to  assume  an  eminent  position  in  the  rank  of  those  sages  and  patriots 
with  whom  he  has  the  honor  to  co-operate.  *'  The  honors  of  the  camp,  the 
bar  and  the  legislative  forum,  are  successively  twined  around  his  brow.  Al- 
veady  he  is  hailed  as  the  second  Chief  Magistrate  of  the  United  States.  But 
stop,  vain  man  I  Thy  intellectual  course  is  run  !  Thou  art  doomed  not  to 
ascend,  another  round  of  fame's  unstable  ladder  !  In  the  eagerness  of  thv 
ascent,  thou  hast  forgotten  to  examine  thy  foothold,  and  now,  the  round  on 
which  thou  standestis  bending  and  cracking  beneath  thee  !  Bntsee  !  he 
attempts  another  !  The  effort  is  too  great — the  round  gives  way — the  shock 
carries  with  it  the  next,  and  the  next,  and  yet  the  next,  and,  continuing  to 
descend  with  accelerated  impetus,  in  the  twinkling  of  an  eye,  Aaron  Burr 
lies  prostrate  at  the  bottom;  the  dishonored  of  his  country,  the  despised  of" 
men,  the  neglected  of  Heaven  ! 

His  was  a  masterly  mind  ;  and  he  used  it  as  the  keen  resistless  weapon.; 
with  which  his  passions  hewed  a  way  to  conquest.    That  weapon  was  Rrote- 
an.    But  few  could  escape  its  ever-changing  attack.    The  light  of  his  sharp- 
and  penetrating  eye  resembled  the  lightning  imprisoned  and  forever  playing- 
in  a  cloud  as  black  as  night  ;  if  anyone  came  under  its  gaze,  he  wras  lost.. 
And  he  continued  thus.,   Age  is  expected  to  subdue  :  but  with  Burr,  the 
winter  of  time  brought  no  snows  to  cool  the  lava  of  passion.    At  fourseater- 
and  six,  the  crater  wore  a  glow  as  ardent  as  at  twenty.    His  faculties-  mock,- 
ed  at  a  century.    In  cunnings  an  Iago,  in  lust  a  Yarquin,  in  patience  a.Catav 
line,  in  pleasure  a  Sybarite,  in  gratitude  a  Malay,  and  in  ambition  an  Alexr 
ander,  Aaron  Burr  affords  the  world  an  awful  example  of  a  powerful  intel- 
lect, destitute  of  virtue. 

Compare  with,  this  specimen  of  learned  depravity,  George  Washington, 
and  behold  !.  how  great  the  disparity,,  how  infinite  the  distance  between 
them  !  And  yet  in  those  faculties  and  attainments  which  are  purely  intel- 
lectual, Aaron  Burr  was,  perhaps,.as  tar  superior  to  Washington^  asWashing- 
ton. was  superior  to  Burr,  in  all  that  dignifies  and  enobles  human  nature,  when 
man  is  viewed  through  the  medium  of  his  moral  responsibilities.  It  was  the 
expansion,  of  the  moral  principle  that  rendered  Washington.snpevior  to  Burr; 
for  true  greatness  cannot  exist  unless  there  be  a  sympathy  between  the  in- 
tellect and.  the  heart.  All  his  actions,  in  every  position  which  he  occupied, 
whether  a  citizen^general  or  President,,  were  under  the  influence  of  a  high- 
toned  morality,  so  that  he  received. the  wellrdeserved  appellation  of  the  "Fa- 
ther of  his  Country  :  n  and  it  was  justly  said  of  him  that  lie  was  "  first  in 
war,  first  in  peace  and  first  in-  the-  hearts  of 'his  countrymen."'  Irs  intellectu- 
al endowments  he  had  his  superiors,  but  m bis  mw»\  qualities  he  towered.. 


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above  all  his  cotemporaries.  He  possessed  a  heart  purified  and  expanded  by 
the  best  of  educations — love  to  God  and  love  to  man. 

In  Washington  you  have  a  noble  example  of  what  a  sound  intellect,  and 
a  moderate  share  of  human  intelligence,  can  achieve,  when. united  with  vast 
moral  attainments.  In.  Burr  you  have  a  fair  specimen  of  what  is  generally 
the  end  of  splendid  intellect  and  great  intellectual  acquirement,  unrestrained 
and  unsanctified  by  the  development  of  the  purer  and  nobler  faculties  of  our 
moral  nature.  May  we  all  emulate  the  virtues  of  the  one,  and  shun  the  vi- 
ces of  the  other. 

The  position  is  no  less  true  in  a  social  and  rational  point  of  view.  Indi- 
viduals compose  the  mass  and  the  mass  governs  the  community  in  a  repub- 
lican form  of  government  It  is  then  very  readily  seen  what  weight  and 
influence  the  union  of  intellectual  and  moral  training  must  have  upon  the  so- 
cial system  and  the  foundation  of  our  nationality  ;  and  how  detrimental 
it  must  be  to  social  and  national  happiness  wherever  and  whenever  they  are 
separated,  and  the  mere  mind  is  permitted  to  gain  the  ascendency,  and  rea- 
son is  suffered  to  lord  it  over  conscience. 

The  history  of  France  during  that  bloody  revolution,  is  a  forcible  exam- 
ple of  this  truth.  At  no  period  of  her  national  history  did  she  possess  so, 
great  an  amount  of  intelligence;  and  perhaps  no  country  could  boast  of  such 
an  array  of  intellectual  giants.  But  forgetting  her  dependence  upon  the- 
Ruler  of  all  nations,  and  confiding  in  the  wisdow  and  intelligence  of  puny 
man,  France  launched  her  ship  of  State  without  moral  chart  or  compass,  on, 
the  ocean  of  mind,'and  despite  all  the  exertions  of  intellect,  all  the  achieve- 
ments of  genius,  and  all  the  beacons  erected  by  Reason,  and  Philosophy,—- 
she  was  irrevocably  doomed  to  sink  amid  waves  of  human  blood  and  alii 
for  want  of  moral  culture  to  warm,  expand  and  illumine  the  hearts  of  her 
sons  and  daughters.  Let  us  profit  by  her  example.  And  while  we  deprecate 
any  attempt  at  uniting  Church  and  State,  let  us  not  forget  that  Religion:  is 
the  salt  of  the  earth.  Let  us  as  sons  of  America,  truly  appreciate  the  bless- 
ings and  privileges  we  erjoy  as  citizens  of  this  mighty  republic,  but  let  us 
remember,  that  in  order  to  perpetuate  our  liberties  and  secure  them  to  our 
children  and  children's  children,  we  must  let  the  stream  of  Religion  flow 
.along  paralel  with  the  stream  of  intelligence.  In  this  respect  the  views  of 
the  early  colonists^,  and  the  views  of  the  Patriots  of  ,fJ^  were  in  advance  of  " 
those  of  the  leading  men  of  Europe  :  that  if  all  the  citizens  were  rightly  (mor- 
ally and  intellectually)  educated,  they  could  govern  and  take  care  of  them— 
selves,  and  save  the  expenses  of  kingships  and  nobilities.  They  reasoned, 
correctly.    Our  republic  proves  it 

The  public  will  directs  the  policy  of  our  government..  IkiQpeople  rule,  by 
tho  sovereign  thoughts  of  the  masses..  How  important,  then,  that  those- 
thoughts  should  emanate  from.au  intelligent  and  moral  miad,  and  a  highly 
-cultivated  judgment.  This  h the  very  palladium. of  our  liberty.  It  is  the 
sheet  anchor  of  our  republican,  institutions,.  I  think  I  may  safely  prophesy, 
that  as  loag  as  the  people  of  these  United  States  are  made  intelligent  bv 
proper  mental  training,  and  elevated  in  the  scale  of  morality,  by  a,  correspon- 
ding degree  of  religious  culture,  so  long  will  our  civil  and  religious- liberties, 
be  safe  against  internal  strife  and  external  aggression. 

And  where,  I  ask,  is  the  citizen  who  loves  his  country  and  watches  over, 


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her  liberties  with  a  jealous  eye,  (as  every  true  American  ought  to  do,) — 
where  is  that  citizen  that  can — that  dare  call  this  position  untenable  ?  k-To 
disconnect  intellectual  and  moral  education,  is  nothing  short  of  an  infidel  in- 
novation !  What  !  separate  relic/ ion  and  education  !  How  absurd,  since 
the  former  is  the  perfection  of  the  latter.  Separate  Religion  and  education  f 
Yon  at  once  mar  its  whole  beauty,  and  entirely  destroy  its  importance.  Sep- 
arate Religion  and  Education  !  You  at  orce  blot  the  sun  from  the  whole 
system,  and  enshroud  us  all  in  the  horrors  of  Pagan  darkness.  Separate 
Religion  and  Education  !■ — you  open  the  flood-gates  of  vice  upon  us,  and  re- 
act the  tragical  scenes  of  revolutionary  France,  in  our  beloved  country.  Sep* 
cerate  Religion  and  Education  ! — and  you  separate  that  which  God  has  join- 
ed together,  and  openly  oppose  his  moral  government  over  the  world  of  mind. 

No,  we  can  never  accomplish  the  end  of  our  being  until  heaven-born  re- 
ligion by  her  sacred  touch  and  holy  fire,  has  imparted  her  hallowed  influ- 
ence to  the  mental  powers  and  intellectual  acquisitions.    Intellectual  devel- 
opment and  moral  culture  must  be  blended.    "  Wherefore,  what  God  has 
jo  ined  together,  let  no  man  put  asunder." 


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